Making Stuff Invisible
Well, only stuff that's a fraction of a millimeter square and only for one ten thousand millionth of a second—but that's a start.
Wes Phillips
Words, Words, Words
Nancy Friedman at Away">http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/">Away With Words guides us to the Coleman Partners website for a well-written essay called "Marketing & the English Language: A Guide to Better Communication," which is worth reading. Ms. Friedman does warn that the site's design is too clever by half, so you'll have to click on the external link, then click "Explain," and the click "Logical" to get to the "off-white papers," of which there are at present, just the one.
The Sultan's Elephant on the Road
I (well, Jeff Wong) linked to The Sultan's Elephant on Monday. Well, it turns out that it will be enacted in other cities throughout the summer. It will be in Antwerp, Belgium from July 6–9 and in Calais toward the end of September. Le Havre gets it in late October.
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The Best Puffery Article Ever
Well, he couldn't call it that if it wasn't true, could he?
Be a Happier Pig
My fellow blogger Mark">http://blog.hometheatermag.com/markfleischmann/">Mark Fleischmann has taken his Happy Pig's Hot 100 New York Restaurants online. The listings are available by neighborhood, alphabetically, or by type of cuisine.
Seat of Female Libido Revealed
Good news: It's in the ventromedial nucleus (VMN) in the hypothalamus.
Bad news: As an audiophile, I emanate vibes that shut it down.
Bad news: As an audiophile, I emanate vibes that shut it down.
Frank Portman, King Dork
As anyone who has talked me me even briefly over the last month knows, I loved reading King Dork. It's a young adult novel that's one-half rant against Catcher In the Rye, one-half spoof of The Da Vinci Code, and one-half Encyclopedia Brown in the 21st Century. Yeah, I know that adds up to more than one, but that's how good it is. It's also very knowing about rock trivia and absolutely spot-on about what it feels like to be an "uncool" teen.
Classical Gas
I've been checking out the Creative Commons–licensed MP3s at Musikethos. If you dig classical music, you'll find a lot to admire there.
Painting the Weather
An exhibit organized around the schtick of making the paintings about the atmospheric conditions portrayed within them. Works anyway.
What's The Difference Between Looking And Seeing?
Answer: You have to "attend" to an object for it to actually register. Jeff Wong sends along a couple of links on "change blindness." Click on the external link for the article and then click herehttp://www.psych.ubc.ca/~rensink/flicker/download/index.html">here; for the examples.